With the help of a user, we have some install help on this topic. I’m going to detail the steps you have to take to install the necessary components to get the AMR simulator to work on Ubuntu 16.04. (This may work for later versions, but I’m unsure).

Firstly, this is going to be done purely through the terminal interface. No GUI, which makes sense since the simulation program is also a CLI. Personally, I am running this on a small digital ocean box which I can save a snapshot of once I get it working then I can destroy the box, and make a new one from the snapshot once I need to spin up one of their 20 CPU servers.

Note, this is not free. The 20 CPU box is about ~$1 per hour. I strongly recommend using the smallest version to set up your snapshot then delete it after you’re done. When you’re ready to run a simulation, you can make a new one with the snapshot, run your simulation for however long you need, then kill it again.

Starting the updating process: I’m going to outline every single command assuming you don’t know how to use a bash terminal at all.